Word: idiom
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...program began with five piano pieces from as sorted opera by Arnold Schoenberg. Except for the final Op. 11 No. 3, all were in Schoenberg's innovating twelve-tone idiom...
Lowell composes much of the time in a startlingly direct, meaningful and contemporary idiom--so did Juvenal. Speaking of the ambitious man: "Your long list/ of honors breaks your neck." Of the emperor Tiberius: "Would you be/Tiberius' right hand, while he sits and suns/ himself at Capri, fed by eastern fags?" Of Cicero: "Yes, all in all, I like such pompous verse/ more than you force, immortal fifth Phillipic!" The passage on Hannibal moves exceptionally well, and is an obvious illustration of the epic note that reverberates hollowly through Juvenal's revulsion...
Latin v. Cyrillic. The target of Tito's wrath was not foreign or domestic enemies but a war of words between Serbs and Croats, who make up the two largest of Yugoslavia's six republics. Their languages are similar except for slight variations in idiom and pronunciation, but Serbian is written in the Cyrillic alphabet (as is Russian) and Croatian in the Latin characters of the West. The Yugoslav constitution recognizes Croatian and Serbian as a single tongue, and in official documents the government is supposed to employ variants of both languages...
...ominous for the rule of the old men, there are no longer any sacred, unquestionable aspects of the London School. "The demonstrations have changed the atmosphere completely," said one politics professor. "Everything is now on the agenda." An American student leaving the Union meeting put this in his own idiom: "Something's happening, and you don't know what it is, Mr. Jones...
...Modernist Marius Constant, did not even allow them the luxury of discernible rhythms, sometimes consisted only of randomly twanging gongs and thumping drums. It was at times like a dance performed to the sound effects of a shoot-'em-up western. But Nureyev and Fonteyn conquered the unfamiliar idiom, emphasizing in new and exquisite ways the fluid drive and rhythmic power of their artistry...